Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dumbarton Oaks is not perishing today on account of [its] weaknesses. Conceivably, they could be corrected. . . . Dumbarton Oaks is a ghost-project today because the common sense of the common people has asserted itself to ask one question: What kind of peace is this Dumbarton Oaks charter asking us to guarantee? Until that question can be answered in a way to satisfy the moral demands of the American people, any effort to make them rise to enthusiastic support of Dumbarton Oaks is just so much time wasted. . . . Win a decent peace, a reconciling peace, and a true 'general international...
...borrow for new enterprises under the G.I. bill of rights. The Federal Government will guarantee a soldier's loan, made by a private bank, loan company, or friend, up to $2,000, providing the RFC or Maury Maverick's Smaller War plants Corp. approves. One requirement: the project must have a reasonable chance of success. If they wish, soldiers can pool their loans, that is, 100 soldiers can get $200,000 to go into business together...
Nearly 20,000 Navy, Marine, and Army construction specialists were working night & day to finish the base, now the biggest single building project under way in the Pacific. They had already set up stout defenses, expanded former Jap airfields, dredged the harbor, laid miles of highway over jungle terrain, erected a radio station for fast news service...
...transfer to France, they will continue what they consider a happy assignment - though they would "rather be in action." They work, in battle dress, eight hours a day, have evenings off, do not have to bother with time-killing hikes and menial chores. More thoughtful soldiers also regard the project as a worthy contribution to Allied unity...
...travel through the square without turning around the kiosk and which will unload and load at sidewalk platforms instead of at the center "pillbox" apron, are the Belmont, Arlington, Kendall Square, and Allston Square lines. New no parking sones in the square may be introduced as part of the project to relieve congested traffic conditions...